Also of Note

Published: July 7, 1995

Critics' choices of some other Manhattan art shows: BRYAN HUNT, Gagosian Gallery, 136 Wooster Street, between Houston and Prince Streets, SoHo (through July 14). Bryan Hunt has suddenly decided to go for Baroque, twisting his trademark bronze waterfalls into contorted shapes and modeling them with ridges and furrows like drapery folds. The results lack the inhuman elegance of his earlier work, but don't quite attain the Rodinesque muscularity he seems to be aiming for (Pepe Karmel).

STEVEN SANTANIELLO, Amos Eno Gallery, 594 Broadway, near Houston Street, SoHo (through Wednesday). An impressive debut from a young artist who, like many of his peers, is combining performance art, video and sculpture. Here, a series of outfits and accouterments involving cameras record the artist's movement through space and conjure farflung precedents that include Gary Hill, Matthew Barney and Michael Snow (Roberta Smith). DAVID ROW, Andre Emmerich, 41 East 57th Street (through July 30). The overlapping ellipses and gridded bands of Mr. Row's paintings recall the meticulous projective geometry of his teacher, Al Held. His raw, scraped surfaces and deliberately off-key colors (quite unlike Mr. Held's) are seductive, but don't quite overcome the prim tidiness of his compositions (Karmel). "SCAPES: LAND OR SEA," Joan T. Washburn, 20 West 57th Street (through July 28). Abstractions by such veterans as Alfred Leslie, James Brooks and Bill Jensen evoke barn doors or underwater vegetation, while Myron Stout is represented by some very uncharacteristic landscape drawings from the 1950's. Two painterly, biomorphic compositions by a newcomer, Pegan Brooke, hold their own in this distinguished company (Karmel).